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Stankfoot

04-08-2006, 07:16 AM

<address>I gotta go with Alice Cooper's "Schools Out":</address><img height="256" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/cooper.jpg" width="260" border="0" /><address>The cover folded out into a school desk and instead of a record sleeve the album had </address><address>a pair of panties on it! Not his best album (that would be Killer) but a cool package...</address>

Grendel_Kahn

04-08-2006, 07:27 AM

For me it would have to be the original packaging for
Led Zep IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR.   It was wrapped in paper
and the inside sleeve was one of those cool paint with water
deals.  If you took a damp paper towle or sponge and wiped the
sleeve it gave you colors.  I think it was a pic of a pool table
corner with ber and some change on it.   THAT was cool.

FezPaul

04-08-2006, 07:38 AM

Monty Python's "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" album came with a matching tie and handkerchief.Why am I yelling?

Death Metal Moe

04-08-2006, 07:43 AM

I only remember records from my childhood and they were a dying medium then.But hearing this kind of stuff makes me wish they still had them.  Or at least package the CDs with cooler shit.

FezPaul

04-08-2006, 07:47 AM

Death Metal Moe wrote: I only remember records from my childhood and they were a dying medium then.But hearing this kind of stuff makes me wish they still had them.  Or at least package the CDs with cooler shit.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/cooler.jpg

Death Metal Moe

04-08-2006, 07:56 AM

HA!  Nicely done FezPaul.I'd buy one of those in a second.  I'm a fancy man I require fancy things to keep my beverages and other assorted foods ice cold.

ChimneyFish

04-08-2006, 08:16 AM

Not an album, but....... The best packaging I remember was Slayers' Seasons in the Abyss Limited Edition.The case was surrounded by "blood". Cheesy, I know, but pretty cool when you're a freshmen in high school.<img src="http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/4111/s8jc.png" border="0" />

OGC

04-08-2006, 08:28 AM

Stankfoot wrote:  <address>I gotta go with Alice Cooper's "Schools Out":</address><img height="256" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/cooper.jpg" width="260" border="0" /><address>The cover folded out into a school desk and instead of a record sleeve the album had </address><address>a pair of panties on it! Not his best album (that would be Killer) but a cool package...</address>That one was nice and it reminds me of another nice package<img height="237" src="http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/6302/billion0ul.jpg" width="208" border="0" /> Billion Dollar Babies, which opened up to reveal your very own ...Billion Dollar bill.And of course ...<img src="http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/2523/bambu4js.jpg" border="0" />Which included a giant rolling paper

Death Metal Moe

04-08-2006, 08:41 AM

ChimneyFish wrote: Not an album, but....... The best packaging I remember was Slayers' Seasons in the Abyss Limited Edition.The case was surrounded by "blood". Cheesy, I know, but pretty cool when you're a freshmen in high school.<img src="http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/4111/s8jc.png" border="0" />That's kinda cool but is a little cheesy, yes.Reminds me of this Immolation CD that came out in the 90's.  They smeard 666 editions with actual goat's blood and numbered them.  There was just a dried blob of it under the CD tray.  Kinda cheesy but as you said, when you're like 18 it's fucking cool and you HAVE to have one.

SinA

04-08-2006, 09:29 AM

Pearl Jam's  No Code came with some prints of photographs taken by band members.  I think it came with ten or so out of a set of a couple hundred possible prints, so each CD had different ones (like baseball cards).  Not the best, and not entirely original, but it's way more than you get with most CDs.

Marc with a c

04-08-2006, 09:31 AM

SinA wrote: Pearl
Jam's No Code came with some prints of photographs taken by band
members. I think it came with ten or so out of a set of a couple
hundred possible prints, so each CD had different ones (like baseball
cards). Not the best, and not entirely original, but it's way more than
you get with most CDs. pearl jam has been prretty good about being creative with their albums.  and remember folks May 2nd <blockquote />

FezPaul

04-08-2006, 09:40 AM

evedder wrote:   pearl jam has been prretty good about being creative with their albums.  and remember folks May 2nd  Dos de Mayos?

This message was edited by FezPaul on 4-8-06 @ 1:41 PM

Marc with a c

04-08-2006, 09:48 AM

pearl jams new album May 2nd.  they are also on saturday night
live next week, and im assuming they will be on letterman sometime this
week.

WhistlePig

04-08-2006, 09:59 AM

Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers with underpants under the zipper.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001R3GC.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

JimBeam

04-08-2006, 10:49 AM

It wasnt as cool as some of the previous ones mentioned by some of Alice In Chains' Jar of Flies CD came with little plastic flies in the spine of the cd case.

PapaBear

04-08-2006, 11:42 AM

I never actually saw this one, because it's so rare but...Catch A Fire by the Wailers<img height="300" src="http://www.popsike.com/pics/dajutom/20041021/4045004978.jpg" width="400" border="0" />It opened up like a Zippo. They stopped making it, because the rivet used for the hinge would damage the record in shipping.

JimBeam

04-08-2006, 11:53 AM

Its a bit off topic but there have been some cool DVD covers as well.One for Evil Dead came shaped like the actual Necronomicon from the movie.Kinda cool in a geeky harror movie fan kinda way.

torker

04-08-2006, 11:58 AM

<img height="300" src="http://www.artforall.co.uk/images/CCA/led_in_thru_out_door.jpg" width="297" border="0" />The coolest I ever owned was Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door.  It came wrapped in plain brown paper. The record sleeve has a watercolor picture that showed up if you wiped it with a bit of water.

Stankfoot

04-08-2006, 12:44 PM

<address>Another good one was the Stone's "Their Satanic Majesties Request" with </address><address>the original "3D" cover .......</address><address>   </address><address><address><img height="236" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/request.jpg" width="258" border="0" /></address><address><address><address><img src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/request2.jpg" border="0" /></address><address>    </address><address><address><address><address>When you tilted the album their heads would turn and they would look at </address><address>each other (except Mick) ...</address></address></address></address></address></address></address>

This message was edited by Stankfoot on 4-8-06 @ 4:48 PM

Hottub

04-08-2006, 01:42 PM

One of the last pieces ever, by the great Alberto Vargas!<img height="171" src="http://www.superseventies.com/ac8candyo.gif" width="171" border="0" />

reeshy

04-08-2006, 02:29 PM

<img border="0" src="http://mud.mm-a5.yimg.com/image/1946302618" />How bout "the White Album"???? Simple but elegant!!!!!!!

tele7

04-08-2006, 05:41 PM

<img height="291" src="http://www.classical.net/lps/images/big/mfsl-poco.jpg" width="306" border="0" />The late great Phil Hartman

spot

04-08-2006, 07:18 PM

I waited for weeks for the album to come out, when I opened the cellophane I almost fainted from excitement.
http://www.beatletracks.com/images/peppercover.jpg

jafter

04-08-2006, 07:36 PM

<img height="353" src="http://allmusic.galeon.com/caratulas/l/led_zeppelin_-_led_zeppelin_III-front.jpg" width="360" border="0" /> This was a cool album cover with the spinning wheel inside.  I remember hearing that Peter Grant said that the band could put out eloborate covers because they could.  They were one of the most profitable bands around.   As for "In Through the Out Door"  I think they had about 6 different angles of the bar room scene.   Zeppelin 4 was never really titled.  Runes, Symbols, Stairway, ZOSO, and Led Zeppelin 4 are all titles that I have heard for that album.

jafter

04-08-2006, 07:38 PM

<img height="591" src="http://rocksoff.org/h3-spanish-stickyfingers.jpg" width="572" border="0" /> Here is the Spanish version of the Stones Sticky fingers.  I guess they were offended by Warhol's cover.

bobrobot

04-08-2006, 07:57 PM

<img title="Uncle Meat, Mothers of Invention" height="467" alt="Uncle Meat, Mothers of Invention" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y46/bobogolem/UncleMeat.jpg" width="472" border="0" />Uncle Meat was released w/ a pullout sheet that included a replica of Zappa's mustache you could cut out & wear. The cut out mustache had little tabs on it that you shoved into your nostrils to hold it in place. I would wear the mustache as I listened to the record, pretending I was Frank Zappa. I listened to that record every waking moment of the day from the day it came out for like 2 months straight. The mustache became a snotty, pulpy wad of nasty, wet paper in a few days and I had to buy a new copy of the record in 2 months cause I had worn the grooves out.

This message was edited by bobogolem on 4-8-06 @ 11:59 PM

IamFogHat

04-08-2006, 08:04 PM

i don't think i've ever been more impressed by (and this might be bias because i think the album is so phenomenal) pearl jam's vitalogy<img height="240" src="http://members.tripod.com/~Roel_vanEst/p/PJ_Vitalogy.jpg" width="240" border="0" />pearl jam always comes through with amazing sleeves/record products, but this one is above and beyond.  the only qualm at the moment that i have is that it's impossible to describe unless you're holding it in your hands.  it folds out like a book and has amazing handwritten lyrics/ great photography, a really creative way of holding the disk itself, a TOC page, and the packaging itself is unbelievable, the kind of shit that makes you go at first 'goddammit, this doesn't fit in my cd case' and then later you kind of go...oh...shit...these guys fucking kick ass.it also, for being supposed anti-corporate indie blah blah blah whatever the fuck pretensious assholes, this shit had to be made by their request with a very specific golden imbued font color indentation, plus the grayish packaging around it was super expensive.  the props that i'll give them, however, is that they kept the cost of the record the same as any other, despite the fact that it cost a small fortune to produce.

Marc with a c

04-08-2006, 08:10 PM

<img border="0" src="http://www.take2.co.za/covers/med/vtalogy.jpg" alt="The image "http://www.take2.co.za/covers/med/vtalogy.jpg" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." />alot of pj banter on the board today.sweet album but i like this cover better 
<img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002BYD.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="The image "http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002BYD.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." />

FezPaul

04-08-2006, 08:18 PM

bobogolem wrote:   I would wear the mustache as I listened to the record, pretending I was Frank Zappa.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/grco.jpgI wear these while watching Marx Brother's movies.

This message was edited by FezPaul on 4-9-06 @ 12:20 AM

bobrobot

04-08-2006, 08:31 PM

FezPaul wrote: bobogolem wrote: ÿÿI would wear the mustache as I listened to the record, pretending I was Frank Zappa.<img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/grco.jpg" border="0" />I wear these while watching Marx Brother's movies.U R A GENIUS, FPÿ!!! That's a GREAT IDEA!!!Did ya ever see this sculpture of mine?<img height="420" src="http://bobogolem.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/groushoecomarxedy.jpg.w560h420.jpg" width="560" border="0" />



This message was edited by bobogolem on 4-9-06 @ 12:35 AM

FezPaul

04-08-2006, 08:45 PM

That's great Bobo, to show you how slow I am, I just now visited your site. Very cool stuff."Evelyn, a modified dog,veiwed the quivering fringe of a special doily, draped across the piano with some suprise........            ........'arf' she said."

fezident

04-09-2006, 04:33 AM

SWEET: Best of cd.  It came in a candy dish with actual candies (they were those red and white mint things that tasted like candycanes) and a little paper doily (sp?) and a little picture book. Very cool. MOTLEY CRUE: Decade of Decadance CD import.  A fold out collage poster, a KICK ASS glossy tour book, a backstage pass from the Dr. Feelgood tour, a sticker, and the lyric booklet.  It all fit into a little cardboard box that the size of the CD case.   Can we talk about some great DVD packages here too or, would that be a hijack?  Battlestar Galactica DVD set comes in a huge metallic Cylon head with w red lenticular eye!  I don't think it gets any better than that.

spot

04-09-2006, 04:59 AM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006AW2J.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

monsterone

04-09-2006, 01:32 PM

i always thought the velvet underground box set, complete w/ peel away banana, is very cool.

A.J.

04-10-2006, 03:03 AM

Since nudity isn't allowed on the board, Google "Electric Ladyland" for the original cover.And I nominate:<img height="284" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/BHV2.jpg" width="282" border="0" />

OGC

04-10-2006, 03:58 AM

A.J. wrote: Since nudity isn't allowed on the board, Google "Electric Ladyland" for the original cover.  you can see the gatefold of Electric Ladyland <a href="http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4035179038" target="_blank">HERE</a> In a similar theme (although not as well endowed) there was theBlind Faith album<img height="204" src="http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2286/blindfaith9cz.jpg" width="210" border="0" />You can see the uncovered version <a href="http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=228231" target="_blank">HERE</a>Warning this picture might be considered illegal for underage nudity in some places

This message was edited by richg0404 on 4-10-06 @ 8:14 AM

Freakshow

04-10-2006, 11:37 AM

All these posts and no one has mentioned Tool.  For shame.  Best CD packages in the history of CDs--See through human overlays, images that change when you tilt the package.  Stuff that doesn't really come across over the internet, so I won't really post pictures...Even the fairly simple package for Undertow had a picture hidden behind where the CD rests (it's a picture of cow licking it's ass).

reeshy

04-10-2006, 12:24 PM

richg0404 wrote: A.J. wrote: Since nudity isn't allowed on the board, Google "Electric Ladyland" for the original cover. you can see the gatefold of Electric Ladyland <a target="_blank" href="http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4035179038">HERE</a> In a similar theme (although not as well endowed) there was theBlind Faith album<img width="210" height="204" border="0" src="http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2286/blindfaith9cz.jpg" />You can see the uncovered version <a target="_blank" href="http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=228231">HERE</a>Warning this picture might be considered illegal for underage nudity in some places

This message was edited by richg0404 on 4-10-06 @ 8:14 AM  When the album first came out, the girl on the cover was rumoured to be Ginger Baker's daughter....don't know how true that is though.......

spot

04-10-2006, 03:14 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002OZY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

HBox

04-10-2006, 03:16 PM

I'll second the Vitalogy mention. No Code was also interesting.

bobrobot

04-10-2006, 06:12 PM

great balls out garage rock album that came w/ a cat's eye mask!<img height="300" src="http://www.hunter-mott.com/discography/sleeves/brain_capers.jpg" width="300" border="0" /><img height="400" src="http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/M/mott_brainb.jpg" width="400" border="0" />The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception is a classic (as is Sweet Angeline)!

This message was edited by bobogolem on 4-12-06 @ 4:45 PM

bobrobot

04-10-2006, 06:19 PM

The Mom's Apple Pie album is a legend in the history of cover art censorship. There were 4 covers in all for this record, I'm gonna see if I can find the others!<img height="620" src="http://friends.s5.net/mazzini/plosce/images/pie.jpg" width="600" border="0" />

PapaBear

04-10-2006, 06:25 PM

This one didn't do any cool tricks, but my brother had this one, and it was cool as hell.Bloodrock USA<img height="212" src="http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth_images/heads_bloodrockusa.jpg" width="426" border="0" />

tele7

04-10-2006, 06:58 PM

<img src="http://www.sohonet.ne.jp/rose/img/styxback.jpg" border="0" />Styx Cornerstone.  It came with an actual Cornerstone.  Whatever that is.

CruelCircus

04-10-2006, 10:51 PM

Springsteen's "The Rising" had a very cool special package version.It came with a sort of aged booklet and all paper packaging.

narc

04-11-2006, 12:18 AM

Maybe this deserves a separate thread, but take a look here:
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/

Some of these are pretty classic/or disturbing. Potentially NSFW.

My personal favorite is this one. it's like all my dreams. Definitely NSFW.

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/badalbumcoverstopten/toptenbadalbumcovers2.htm

This message was edited by narc on 4-11-06 @ 4:24 AM

ChimneyFish

04-12-2006, 10:58 AM

The packaging felt like that supermarket cardboard paper, that the bags are made out of.<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/0602498603819.jpg" border="0" />

Terragen

04-14-2006, 12:13 PM

ChimneyFish wrote: The packaging felt like that supermarket cardboard paper, that the bags are made out of.  And the album itself is made of PURE GENIUS! You win for posting my favorite album/songwriter.   
<blockquote />

ChimneyFish

04-15-2006, 05:36 AM

Terragen wrote:  ChimneyFish wrote: The packaging felt like that supermarket cardboard paper, that the bags are made out of.  And the album itself is made of PURE GENIUS! You win for posting my favorite album/songwriter.   Finally. Someone who can appreciate the greatness that is John Frusciante.You're only the second person I've met that loves this album.